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Wednesday, 1 October 2014

SOLD OUT! Fortean London Halloween: Ghost, Witches and Demons

This event has now sold out! Many thanks to everyone involved and who booked!Newham Bookshop will be running a small bookshop on the night. 8pm (doors 7.30pm)Thursday 30 October 2014£3 / £2 concessions.Advanced tickets (10% booking fee). The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NRLurking on the night before Halloween, our October meeting has gathered a coven of the finest speakers on London ghosts, witches and demons as well as our own Scott Wood. Each talk will be 20-30 minutes. Roger Clarke: Queen Victoria and the Child MediumThe Tale of Vicky’s Ticker: Did a publican’s daughter from Shoreditch really channel spirits for Queen Victoria as a child?

Award-winning historian Jessie Childs tells the true story of a horrific exorcism performed on a young chambermaid by a group of fugitive priests in a house in Hackney in 1586.

Jessie Childs won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography with her first book Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. She has written and reviewed for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Literary Review. Her new book is God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith In Elizabethan England.Deborah Hyde: The Witch of EyeNearly six hundred years ago in Smithfield, London, a commoner was burned alive as punishment for practising the dark arts. But the case of Margery Jourdemayne is interesting for so many more reasons than the obvious ones. We'll look at this fifteenth century upstart to find out what Margery's case said about society, the power of the Church and our own preconceptions of what witches should look like.Deborah Hyde is editor of The Skeptic magazine and writes about belief in the malign macabre at Jourdemayne.Scott Wood: Ghosts and Demons of the CityThe City of London, Borough and Spitalfields have a dark history of walking corpses, demonic images and ghostly visitations. Scott Wood marks the local ghosts and ghouls on to the map. Scott is the host and co-organisor of the London Fortean Society, the Fortean Londonist and the author of London Urban Legends: The Corpse on the Tube. 8pm (doors 7.30pm)Thursday 30 October 2014£3 / £2 concessions.Advanced tickets (10% booking fee).The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NR